nntp server login?

nntp server login?

[Kin Cho]

Is there a way to specify user name and password to login
to paid nntp servers?

-kin

Re: nntp server login?

[Kai Grossjohann]

>>>>> Kin Cho <kin@c-cube.com> writes:

  > Is there a way to specify user name and password to login
  > to paid nntp servers?

See the node `NNTP' in the online manual and/or the documentation for
the variable nntp-authinfo-function.

kai
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Re: nntp server login?

[Jan Exner]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> See the node `NNTP' in the online manual and/or the documentation for
> the variable nntp-authinfo-function.

Is it possible to have one (the main) server with authentication, and
some others without? Or, as a workaround, how do i specify an empty
password in the .authinfo-file? Empty names work with "", but
passwords not.

Grüße,
Jan

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Re: nntp server login?

[Harald Meland]

[Jan Exner]

> Is it possible to have one (the main) server with authentication, and
> some others without?

In your ~/.authinfo (or whatever your `nntp-authinfo-file' points to),
don't list servers that doesn't need authentication.  Also, make sure
you don't have any authentication functions (like nntp-send-authinfo)
_always_ called from `nntp-server-opened-hook' and friends.

-- 
Harald